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    Faith Among Black Americans

    Today, most Black adults say they rely on prayer to help make major decisions, and view opposing racism as essential to their religious faith.

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    9. Interviews with Black pastors

    Black pastors hold a storied place in American history. During the eras of slavery and racial segregation, they played pivotal roles in Black communal efforts to “uplift the race” (a phrase commonly used in the 19th and 20th centuries). This often included organizing job training, after-school mentoring, insurance collectives, athletic clubs and other community service […]

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    Key findings about Black America in 2019

    The Black population in the U.S. is diverse and growing. Our analysis explores the demographic characteristics of this population in 2019.

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    What Can Improve Democracy?

    Amid growing discontent with the state of democracy globally, we asked over 30,000 people what changes would make their democracy work better.

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    The Growing Diversity of Black America

    The U.S. Black population is growing. At the same time, how Black people self-identify is changing, with increasing shares considering themselves multiracial or Hispanic.

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    3. A growing share of Black immigrants have a college degree or higher

    Overall, Black immigrants earn college degrees at a similar rate to U.S. immigrants overall. Indeed, 31% of Black immigrants ages 25 and older have a bachelor’s degree or higher  – slightly lower (33%) than the share of the immigrant population in the U.S. with a college degree. The share of Black immigrants with at least […]

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    Methodology

    This methodology explains how we estimated the religious composition of foreign-born populations around the world. It describes the data sources we used to measure the number of migrants from each origin country living in each destination country, as well as the data sources and methods we used to estimate the religious composition of migrants. A […]

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    2. Over half of Black immigrants arrived in U.S. after 2000

    Almost six-in-ten Black foreign-born people living in the United States (58%) immigrated to the U.S. in 2000 or later, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the 2019 American Community Survey. Roughly three-in-ten (31%) immigrated to the U.S. between 2010 and 2019, and a little over a quarter (27%) immigrated to the country from […]

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